Originally Posted by
Fishfreighter
FAA fine? That means SKW is one of the big boys now.
And he was right. Virtually all airline use "estimated" weights for baggage depending on the the time of year. There are summer weights and winter weights. But NO one actually weighs the bags.
The thing that gets me is each airline uses different assumed weights for passengers and bags. So the "overweight" skywest plane could have been within limitations on another airline.